On the 7th of June at 7 PM, my solo exhibition LET’SCH FOCUS will open in Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires (Argentina). It’s an honor to exhibit in this centre, known for the best exh...
A portrait in difficult light. For those interested: ISO 2500, 85 mm, f/1.4, 1/125 sec (Nikon D3s). Most probably this photo will be in an exhibition. Details online soon. A girl in the dark, India.
All photos taken in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), India. More images here >
Preparing an exhibition with photos from India, Vietnam and The Netherlands. Where and when and why? Will post more information as soon as possible. Selection of photos is hard. This photo will take ...
I have lived very close to tulip fields all my life. First in Noord Holland and now in Friesland. Never ever did I photograph those fields (neither visited the world famous Keukenhof), although I enj...
Published today on Wideangle’s blog ‘Behind the Lens‘, the story behind my image of Bobby from India.
April, ten years ago. Bobby, at that time a young girl living in Nagwa slum, had a serious wound in her head with maggots creeping out. An x-ray in Benaras Hindu University showed that the maggots we...
Please note that all my images are digitally watermarked and are not to be used or copied in any manner without my permission. That includes internet use! Puka, a girl from Pushkar, Rajasthan | India
One of the projects I am working on for several years now, is streetfood, a collection of photos and recipes of food prepared by the ‘common man and woman’ I meet during my travels. Simpl...
If you missed the LET’SCH FOCUS exhibition in the Go Gallery in Amsterdam, this is your last chance to visit! We have these opening hours this week: Wednesday 29/2 (12:00-18:00), Thursday 01/03...
An elderly Red Yao (Son Dao in Vietnamese: ‘the red waxed heads’) woman is being helped wearing her turban: three layers of red cotton decorated with pompons (or French 20-cent silver coi...
From January 21 to February 27, I will have an exhibition in the Go Gallery in Amsterdam. The gallery is open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 17:30. There will be photos from India and V...
Our Queen Beatrix covered her head with a scarf during a visit to a mosque in Oman recently, a reason for poltician Geert Wilders, mainly known for his anti-Islam oneliners, to raise parliamentary qu...
Last month. A small H’Mong house in the mountains of Lai Chau in Vietnam. A woman is stirring in a huge frying pan containing corn (about which more later!). The heating fire is the only source...
Focus Magazine published a eight-page special with my photography (#1, January 2012). A good start of a creative New Year! You can see the pdf here. Text, however, is in Dutch. … Cover Focus Ma...
Winters can be really cold in Varanasi. These kind of messages are no exception in the newspapers between December and February: ‘At least eight more people died in different parts of Uttar Pra...
Actually, we were sharing pakcakes and ‘lassi’ when I shot these photos… So nice one of them is a cover photo now! Details on the book can be found here. Click ‘meer’ be...
I just returned from Vietnam where, apart from supporting the eye surgery of a group of children, I visited the Duniya supported rehabilitation centre in Lai Chau. A home for 45 blind, deaf, cerebral...
This girl is totally deaf and a student at our school in Lai Chau, Vietnam (supported by Duniya Foundation). Need I say more? A happy girl, Lai Chau | Vietnam
This is one of our patients. A H’Mong girl from a very small village in the mountains of Lai Chau. When posing for me, she looked very serious, but she was really happy with her new eye. If you...
As described before, we are in Vietnam to visit our rehabilitation centre and to organize ‘artificial eyes’ for a group of children. In the meantime, we have been here for a week and spen...
Last Sunday, Bheru died. I knew him for many years. From the time he broke his spine when he was burried under a collapsing roof during a marriage party he attended in a slum area, and later, when my...
Sorry to bother you with a test message, but I am preparing a journey to Vietnam (reason) and my WordPress Subscribe2 plugin stopped sending email messages. I really need my blog to work at this poin...
In October this year, Duniya Foundation financed the eye-surgery of 22 children in the Vietnamese mountain town Lai Chau. At that time, we could not help all of those who came to us for screening: so...
Earlier, I posted ‘seven postcards‘ from the Morvan (Bourgogne, France) , all taken in summer. This time, I spent time enjoying the mist… The fog was so thick at times, that we coul...
Every time I stay in France in the Morvan, I have to go to Emmaüs Etang-sur-Arroux at least once. And, I have to admit, I never return without buying something I don’t really need… Today,...
Yesterday, I photographed Europe’s smallest bird in my parents’ garden in France: the Goldcrest (Regulus regulus, in Dutch: goudhaantje). It looked at me as if it wanted to say: ‘ta...
I know! I am a bit late with my ‘photo of the month’, being the end of the month already. Nevertheless, I wanted to share this photo of my little friend from India: Choti (which by the wa...
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